Wire queen excluder for beehives



Pat ented May 3111,; 1927. f

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w rnn ecnnn EXCLUDEB FOB BEIEI-IIVES.

, Ape-Imam fild'March 17, 19 2 7.serial No. 176,1 I

I .wdimensioned; bee space, such as the build- -1ng'of bu rr comb, 1n. the beekspace; a furtit-herobject is to provide a wireexcluder of extremely open construction, 130, that I the wentilation'of the hive wwillzbe interfered. with to a minimum degree; a sti1l furthe'r j object. is to provideaconstruction of great strength without interfering with the, bee space. j I I My invention consists in the constructlon and arrangement of parts, all as hereinafter more particularly described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:-

constructed in accordance with my inven- Fig. 1 is a plan view of a queen excluder tion.

Fig.2 is a vertical section through a bee hive showing my excluder therein, thesection being taken on a line corresponding to the line 22 of Fig. 1. r

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view, to a larger scale, showing the manner in wh ch certain wires used in mydevice are imbedded within a supporting frame.

Flg. 4 1s a fragmentary v1ew, also to a larger scale, showing the manner in which ribs are cast about the wires, one of which wires'is shown in Flg. 3, and also showing the manner inwhich these ribs are embedded in the frame of the device. V

Fig. 5 is'a fragmentary v1ew,to an enlarged scale of a portion of Fig.2, showing the relative position of my excluder to the brood chamber and super ofa bee hive.

In thedrawings like characters of refer-' ence indicate corresponding parts in the various views.

My improved queen ex cl'uder consists of a rectangular wooden frame 1, 1n which 1s.

supported; a screen-like structure' forrned from a plurality of equally spaced apart wires 2 disposed parallel to two opposite marginal edges ofthe frame 1.

Adjacent to each end, each wire 2 is bent at 3 to offset the ends 4 ofthe wire out of the plane of thecentral portion of the wire.

The offset ends 4 are imbedded within the 1 frame land the bent portions 3 are such that the central portions of thewires 2 are and-away from-the other face. I I; klplurahty of spaced-apart meta the frame-asshowhi in Fig.4.

face off the frame flush withthat face ofthe frame,

.di spl aced towards one i faoe' of xare castabout the wires 72 and'thesef ribs ;ex-"

'tendg in one piece entirelyvacross the frame and the ends of the ribs are-imbedded in These; ribs 5 serve .to ,accurately retain theywires 2 in,theinplioperly and equally spaced apart; positionsa nd the faces A-..of' V the ribs are flush with the corresponding e 1 Also'thepwires 2-.lare as as had to the faces A of the'ribs 5, so. that} these faces of the wires are substantially It will'thus' be seenfthat, in my devicey one face of the excluding screen is substantially flush with one face of the frame, whereas the other-face of the screenisde pressed below theopposite face of the frame.

and the extent to which it: is. depressed jis placed bet'wee'n'the brood chamber a 6 and the super or surplus honey box .7.

exactly the height of the bee space desired. In using my excluder' in a hive, it is 4 Reference isnow directed to Figs. 2 and; 5 from which the 'usejof my device 'willjbe clear. 7 In the standard hive, the .bottom of, the comb Sin the super 7 is flush with the bot tom ofthe super and the top of the comb9 I in the brood chamber 6 is depressed below I i i the top of the "brood chamber a distance U equal'to the height of the bee space de-' ber'is, indicatedby thenumeral 10.

sired. This bee space in the brood cham In. my excluder, due to the man'ner'in which the wires 2 are bent'at 3, so asto disi place the wire screen towards one side ofthe 'fram'el andaway from the other side, the under face of the screen is substantiallyflush with the under face of the frame 1 and when I the super is placed upon the excludenabee' s paceljl of exactly the proper height is prof vided above the screen. r I I The'construction of my excluderjis 'such fl 1" that anjextremelyopen structure'is provided. I i I so that the efficient ventilation of the hive is interfered with to .a minimum degree.

frameinone single piece.

. This is'accomplished by the. provisionof P I the ribs 5 'whichextend entirely across the} f' 1 Afurtherimportant feature of m f h j 'vention is that the bee spaces above and beinilention'have been attained. a

' "Various modifications may be made in my invention Without departing from the spirit thereof orthescope of the claims and thereforejthe exact forms [shown are to be taken as illustrative only and: not in ja' limiting 's'ense and' I desire that only such {limitations shaJllbe placed thereon as are-imposed'by jthe,

prior-art or are specifically set; forth in 1 the appended claims.

' What I claim as my 'mvent'ionisb a V queen e xcluder for bee hlves' com-c prlsmg, a rectangular frame, a plurahty of spaced apart tviresl extending there across and disposed parallel totwo opposite mar- V aginal'edges-of the frame the ends of each iv XXV i1 8 ofiset and imbedded" in'the frame, the

frame;

Wires-lying in a common plane and-forming screen-like; structure-oneijface of which is a substantially flush"Withj one face. of the} frame and" theother "face of whichisgdea'f" 1 presse'dlbelojw the planef of"thefopposite face ofthe frame. "71]; 2; A queen. excluder for bee: hives "-'com-f prising, a rectangular frame, a plnralityfofjf N spac-edapart'W1res1eXtend1ngthereacross and,

edges of the frame, theends o'fth'e' v'vires'imbedded ithinthe frame, the Wires offset at disposed. parallelto-two oppositefmarginal I each end thereof so thatjthe central portions of the Wires are displaced laterally towards one-face of the frame' andfaway fromthe opposite face," and a pluralityfiof spaced apart, cast metal rib-sIextending acrossf' the frame at right angles to the 'a-foresaidwires,

the wiresimbedded'yvithin said ribs, and; i the ends of the '-ribs imbeddedin the frame; each rib extendlng in one,niece across the 

